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Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi.
- Date:
- c.1846.
- Reference:
- MS.3597
- Part of:
- Monckton, Edward Henry Cradock (1812-1878)
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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Description
Collection of alchemical, chemical and medical receipts translated from Hindustani. Compiler's holograph MS. On pale blue paper, many of the sheets having in the outer upper corner a small oval impressed stamp, lettered 'S.R.F. 1846'. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of apparatus, etc. Many of the receipts and notes have the names of modern Hindustani authors written against them.
Publication/Creation
c.1846.
Physical description
88 ll. 4to. 201/2x16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1920 Purchased 1920 (accession 40339)
Notes
Catalogue entry prepared by Access to Archives mark-up staff from published finding aids (with additional information provided by Christopher Hilton) and edited for inclusion in Wellcome Library database by Christopher Hilton.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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